My Beautiful Due: 2013

Saturday, December 28, 2013

Merry Christmas 2013!

This would have been perfect if it were in focus, but this year we just weren't able to get a good holiday photo of the Swoyer family. But we sure had a good holiday season -- plenty of family time, lots of laughs and excitement and presents, and many colds.

Monday, December 16, 2013

Winter Wonderland 2013

This year, all four boys went with Grandpa and MiMi to Winter Wonderland at Navy Pier. Ollie, Elliot and blurry Ben loved the spinning Tea Cups (especially with Grandpa doing the spinning). Henry rode the Tilt-a-Whirl twice, once with grandpa and once with MiMi. All the boys made their own special Xmas cookie. Fun time!

Monday, December 9, 2013

Happy Birthday Oliver August! You're 3 today!

Something wonderful happened on this day three years ago! Your brother Henry and Mommy and Daddy were there then, too! Happy Birthday Ollie! We love you!

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Dreaming of Santa Claus?

One Christmas Eve, my parents told me the sooner I fell asleep the sooner Christmas would come. Henry seems to like this idea.

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Elliot's first day of school!

If it's anything like the rest of us, you'll remember it!

Saturday, August 10, 2013

Chicago, According to Elliot

Elliot made this postcard on August 10, 2013 in the Chicago History Museum’s exhibition, Sensing Chicago. "This is how Chicago looks, sounds, smells, tastes, and feels to me," he said.

Saturday, August 3, 2013

"We could never have loved the earth so well...

...if we had had no childhood in it." George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860)

Friday, July 19, 2013

Early childhood has a powerful effect on memory...

...what of this?

Monday, May 27, 2013

Happy Birthday to you, Henry! You are 5 today!

This year, we're all about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Remember what you did last year for your birthday? You (and your Daddy) were pirates! How about the year before that?